Ambrose Little

PDC 2008 = Awesome

A crew of us at Infragistics just got back from our PDC 2008 trip last week. It was pretty awesome. Sunday - Party with Palermo Sunday night, we were the "supergreen!" sponsor of the recurring Party with Palermo . Kathleen...

Published 11-03-2008 9:12 PM By [Infragistics] Ambrose Little

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Windows Forms, WPF

From Blah to Aha! in Web Sites/Apps

There are a ton of resources out there to help developers (and designers) make better Web sites and applications, but I wanted to draw out three that I think will have a very high ROI for any developer who is building for the Web. You could easily...

Published 06-12-2008 2:50 PM By [Infragistics] Ambrose Little

Filed under: Best Practices, UX

Visual Studio Tutorials (.com)

One of our IG champs (unofficial term), Christopher Bishop, has put up a really snazzy independent community site called VisualStudioTutorials.com : It has a tutorials, code snippets, and forums, and he'd love to get more folks using Infragistics...

Published 05-06-2008 11:59 PM By [Infragistics] Ambrose Little

Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET

Minor faceOut Update

As reported by Dave Sussman (and others ), the initial version expected to be running on US systems (thanks to some hard-coded US date formats in the sample XML data). I've since updated faceOut to handle those peculiarities (including forcing...

Published 04-09-2008 6:43 PM By [Infragistics] Ambrose Little

Filed under: Silverlight

German Article (auf Deutsch!) on Infragistics Excel Engine

I just wanted to point out an article written by one of our top German community members, André Krämer. Thanks, Andre! "Wenn Excel mehr als eine Datensenke sein soll" "Optisch ansprechenden Excel-Dateien zu erzeugen, erfordert...

Published 04-08-2008 1:56 PM By [Infragistics] Ambrose Little

Filed under: .NET

faceOut - our latest Silverlight 2 app - is Alive!

If you want to get an [updated] overview of what we're doing with Silverlight, go to our Focus on Silverlight area . We've published a high-level roadmap there and that's also where you can get an intro and overview of faceOut (as well as...

Published 03-17-2008 1:50 PM By [Infragistics] Ambrose Little

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Come Learn Infragistics at our First Ever Conference!

This year— coming up very soon —Infragistics will be co-hosting devscovery with Wintellect! This is going to be awesome. Not too long ago, I blogged about how Infragistics is an MVP squirrel . We’re bringing those nuts to this conference as well as some...

Published 02-20-2008 10:53 PM By [Infragistics] Ambrose Little

Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET, Best Practices, Silverlight, UX, Visual Design, Windows Forms, WPF

UX and Agile

I was scheduled to do a talk today called "Building Great UX with .NET" today at the SouthCT .NET UG. Well, mother nature had other plans , and I had to reschedule for 8 April. So I have this wonderful presentation all prepared and...

Published 02-13-2008 4:08 AM By [Infragistics] Ambrose Little

Filed under: Best Practices, UX

Little Links - M-V-Poo on WPF, RSS Bandit on Infragistics, and More

Here are a few more links of interest I thought I'd share with you all. M-V-Poo on WPF Josh Smith , resident Infragistics guidisan, has posted yet another awesome article to Code Project detailing how you can do what has now been dubbed "M-V...

Published 01-28-2008 3:28 PM By [Infragistics] Ambrose Little

Filed under: .NET

Debug the .NET Framework

Scott just announced the availability of the .NET Framework source with the ability to debug (e.g., step into) the code inside of VS 2008. Those of us who have spent hours digging in via Reflector using imagination debugging (i.e., I imagine that...

Published 01-17-2008 1:58 AM By [Infragistics] Ambrose Little